Dr Clare Craig
Written work
Clare Craig BM BCh FRCPath studied medicine at Cambridge and Oxford, then spent 15 years in the NHS as a diagnostic pathologist. She led pathology and clinical data for the cancer arm of the 100,000 Genomes Project, and since May 2020 has worked pro bono distilling the evidence for a lay audience.
The Elementary series
Cold cases reopened. Epidemics, misdiagnosed deaths, one question: what really killed them?
Medical history murder mysteries. True stories investigated by modern detectives.
Fiction, but full of truth, all of it carefully referenced.
The Blessed and the Beautiful
Fiji, 1875. Measles. A cold case reopened.
In Fiji in 1875, measles killed a quarter of the population in four months, a death rate nearly twenty times higher than in the Faroe Islands. When his wife’s niece is taken into hospital with suspected measles, historian Dan cannot leave the question alone, and with pathologist Naomi Harrington he tests every explanation the textbooks offer. One by one the obvious answers fall, leaving a possibility nobody has been willing to look at.
Book two · ComingThe Fear and the FeverSamoa, 1918 · Influenza
Book three · ComingThe Last PlagueHarbin, 1911 · Plague
Book four · ComingThe Dark Arts in the Black DeathSt Albans, 1348 · Plague
Book five · ComingChasing the Shape ShifterBoston, 1721 · Smallpox
Book six · ComingThe Lost SoulsVienna, 1847 · Childbed feverNon-fiction
LACED
The truth about folic acid · UK edition
Paperback · 254 pages · 6 × 9 in
What mandatory fortification of UK flour means for you and your family, and the questionable way the science, ethics and law have been used.
“Read it with a willingness to change your mind. I had to.”
Dr John Campbell, from the foreword
LACED
The truth about folic acid · US edition
Paperback $19.99 · free US delivery · out 14 December 2026
The United States has added folic acid to its flour since 1998, one of the first countries to do so. LACED asks what that long experiment has really shown, and whether anyone checked it was safe for everyone eating it.
The US edition has a foreword by Dr Joe Fraiman.
The Covid books
Dr Clare Craig has researched covid policies in depth since 2020, and these books are the fruit of that work.
Spiked
A shot in the dark
How many of the promises about the vaccines were based on evidence, and why were you never told? We were told they were 95 percent effective, that they would stop transmission and that they were safe in pregnancy. What did the trials actually measure? What did the regulators already know when those claims were made?
“In my view, this is the most important book published in the last five years.”
Alison B., Amazon review
“Brilliantly written, full of evidence clearly put.”
Jo B., Amazon review
Expired
Covid the untold story
Have you ever felt the covid story did not entirely add up? What was known about respiratory viruses but apparently completely forgotten? How did a mistake in a public health textbook, with the wrong number, impact us all?
“As a big believer in the policies implemented upon us all over the last few years, this book has been a massive eye opener for me.”
KB, Amazon review
“A detailed, honest and thoughtful book. All the things that the official Covid response was not.”
Gellit, Amazon review
Saved
Fear, faith and false salvationHow fear turned a vaccine into an article of faith, and what happened to those who doubted. · Coming soonTell me when it's out
Approved
The trial that never wasWhat the regulators could have and should have known about the covid vaccines, and what they failed to ask. · Coming soonTell me when it's out
Damaged
The fallout and the denialWhy medicine fails to see the harm its own drugs cause, especially with the covid vaccines. · Coming soonTell me when it's outAny two books that are out now: £3 off.
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